The Winslow Unified School District Governing Board approved a slate of routine, administrative items during a 13-minute meeting held last week.
The board approved minutes from its April 8, regular meeting and ratified expenditures totaling $1.2 million. The board also approved several personnel actions, including the hiring of Brian Byrer as an elementary physical education teacher and Warlito Sotomayor in a high-needs special education position, along with classified hires Madisyn LaFon and Kendra Jenkins as paraprofessionals.
Resignations approved by the board included Sharon Greenwood, sixth-grade teacher at Washington Elementary School; Cassie Hancock, speech-language pathology assistant; Alexa Gilbert, junior high paraprofessional; and Juvy Beggs, custodian. The board also approved the transfer of Jennifer Brown from paraprofessional to parent liaison at Bonnie Brennan Elementary School and the separation from employment of Shera Baker, media technician.
Additional items approved included extra duty pay for Karsyn Ellis as a yearbook sponsor and Tyler Allen as a band and orchestra sponsor, as well as a student fundraiser request for the Winslow High School track club to extend its “Fill My Track” fundraiser through May 2. The board also approved out-of-state travel for Federal Programs Director Leanne Bowley, to send Loretta Chischilly and three Indian education committee members to attend the Navajo Nation Johnson-O’Malley Conference in Bernalillo, N.M., in June, funded through Johnson O’Malley.
